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A film about Comets written by Véronique Ataly and Jean-Pierre Luminet,
directed par Mathias Ledoux.
The story of comets from Aristotle to Rosetta.
Production : Agat Films (Paris, 1999)
Broadcasting : 14 march 1999 on the french-german channel ARTE.

Cassiopée is a series of 16 TV documentaries (duration : 52 minutes
each) about Astronomy. I am the scientific advisor and co-writer.
Broadcasted on french TV channel
France Supervision.. Video tapes are available (in french).

In 1998 I directed the exhibition "Figures of the Sky" coupled to the
opening of the new French National Library
(october 1998- january 1999). 25 000 visitors were welcomed.
A virtual visit is available at :

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION AT THE FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRARY

I give
about 50 conferences per year, in France and abroad (English speaking), for
all types of audience: primary and secundary schools, universities, lay
people, managers and chairmen. I collaborate with several groups of managers
to provide highlights of the scientific research in astrophysics,
relativity, cosmology and relations Art-Science. I am qualified as an
expert with the Association Progrès du Management, Key people
and Glamour Speakers

Some major international meetings where I
participated as an invited speaker:

Conference One Century of Nobel prizes, Science
and Humanism, UNESCO, april 1999 (2000
attendants)

Astrophysics and cosmology (black holes, big-bang, the shape of
space, life and death of stars, the fate of the universe, cosmic
evolution, meteorites and killer asteroids, eclipses, Venus transits,
comets, etc)

History and philosophy of sciences (picture of the Universe from
Antiquity to nowadays)